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My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories
September 8, 2024 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
BIO
Joan Nathan is the author of twelve cookbooks including her latest work, My Life in Recipes: Food, Family, and Memories. Her 2018 book, King Solomon’s Table: A Culinary Exploration of Jewish Cooking from Around the World, won the IACP International Cookbook of the Year. That same year, the much-acclaimed Jewish Cooking in America, which in 1994 won both the James Beard Award and the IACP/Julia Child Cookbook of the Year Award, was named an IACP classic. ‘
In 2022, Nathan was included in the Forward 125: The American Jews who shaped our world. Nathan is also a regular contributor to The New York Times and Tablet Magazine. Nathan’s PBS television series, Jewish Cooking in America with Joan Nathan, was nominated in 2000 for the James Beard Award for Best National Television Food Show. An inductee to the James Beard Foundation’s Who’s Who in American Food and Beverage, she also received the Silver Spoon Award from Food Arts magazine.
Nathan serves on the board of the D.C. -based organization, Martha’s Table, by whom she was recently honored for her work on Sunday Night Suppers, an annual fundraising event chaired by Nathan, Alice Waters and Jose Andres. Nathan previously spoke to CHoW in November 2018 about King Solomon’s Table.
TALK DESCRIPTION
Before hummus was available in every grocery store—before shakshuka was a dish on brunch menus—Joan Nathan taught home cooks how and why they should make these now-beloved staples themselves. Here, in her most personal book yet, the beloved authority on global Jewish cuisine uses recipes to look back at her own family’s history—their arrival in America from Germany; her childhood in postwar New York and Rhode Island; her years in Paris, New York, Israel, and Washington, D.C. Nathan shares her story—of marriage, motherhood, and a career as a food writer; of a life well-lived and centered around meals—and she punctuates it with all the foods she has come to love. Her talk will connect some of the more-than 100 recipes with Jewish history and her experiences writing about them.
(Members will receive a link and passcode.)